Classical Recommendations
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Tchaikovsky from Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker
30th Apr 2019
The orchestra’s first full-length recording with their new chief conductor, plus new releases from Hilary Hahn, Elīna Garanča, Albrecht Mayer, and Isata Kanneh-Mason.
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New Release Round-Up - 26th April 2019
26th Apr 2019
New releases from the Belcea Quartet, Melvyn Tan, Jess Gillam, Julian Prégardien, and the Choir of St John’s College Cambridge.
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BBC Music Magazine - May 2019 Choices
22nd Apr 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, Imogen Cooper, Jodie Devos, and Edgar Moreau.
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New Release Round-Up - 19th April 2019
19th Apr 2019
New releases from Vasily Petrenko, Valery Gergiev, Kristian Bezuidenhout and Pablo Heras-Casado, plus previously-unpublished Schumann and Wolf from Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten.
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Boxed Set Selections - April 2019
16th Apr 2019
An Offenbach bicentenary edition from Warner Classics, Sir John Eliot Gardiner's period-instrument accounts of Berlioz on Philips, and Carlo Maria Giulini's complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and Decca.
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New Release Round-Up - 12th April 2019
12th Apr 2019
New albums from Evgeny Kissin & the Emerson Quartet, Renaud Capuçon & David Fray, Boris Giltburg, Florilegium, and Les Vents Français.
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2019 - The Winners!
10th Apr 2019
A live update from tonight's ceremony at Kings Place, including details of the Recording of the Year and Jury Awards...
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Lise Davidsen's Decca debut and other forthcoming highlights
10th Apr 2019
A magnificent debut album of Wagner and Strauss from the Norwegian lyric-dramatic soprano, plus new releases from Michael Fabiano, Steven Osborne, Rachel Podger and Magdalena Kožená.
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New Release Round-Up - 5th April 2019
5th Apr 2019
New albums from Christian Thielemann, Carolyn Sampson, Cappella Gabetta and Alban Gerhardt, plus a collection of Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Berlioz recordings.
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Gramophone Editor's Choices - April 2019
3rd Apr 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, with the top spot going to a recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 7 which 'tells you not just how much Iván Fischer loves this work but how he loves it unconditionally'.
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The Presto Chart - March 2019
1st Apr 2019
Our 25 best-selling titles across all formats for March, with Isabelle Faust's Bach violin concertos with the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin on Harmonia Mundi in first place...
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Presto Editor's Choices - March 2019
31st Mar 2019
Fazil Say’s appropriately epic Troy Sonata, the Italian version of Moniuszko’s Halka, Richard Rodney Bennett’s vivid depiction of the signs of the zodiac, and a glorious Paris recital from Stéphane Degout and Simon Lepper.
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New Release Round-Up - 29th March 2019
29th Mar 2019
New albums from Yvgeny Sudbin, Bojan Čičić, Eric Le Sage, and Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, plus a bicentenary tribute to Clara Schumann from Howard Shelley and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra.
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BBC Music Magazine - April 2019 Choices
26th Mar 2019
Chris introduces this month's selection, including albums from Peter Donohoe, Jonas Kaufmann, Diana Damrau and Helmut Deutsch, and Gianandrea Noseda and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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New Release Round-Up - 22nd March 2019
22nd Mar 2019
New albums from Iestyn Davies and Fretwork, Quatuor Diotima and the Carducci Quartet, plus the world premiere of Moniuszko’s Halka in its 1857 Italian version from Fabio Biondi and Europa Galante.
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Boxed Set Selections - March 2019
20th Mar 2019
A centenary edition from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Robert Casadesus’s collected Columbia recordings, Tchaikovsky’s complete solo piano works from Valentina Lisitsa, and a comprehensive recorder anthology from Brilliant Classics.
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New Release Round-Up - 15th March 2019
15th Mar 2019
New albums from Khatia Buniatishvili, Fazil Say and the Artemis Quartet, the final release in Iván Fischer’s Mahler series with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, and Elgar, Moeran and Vaughan Williams from the Barbirolli Society archives.
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BBC Music Magazine - March 2019 Choices
12th Mar 2019
Chris introduces this month’s choices, headed by a peerless Schumann song-recital from German baritone Christian Gerhaher and pianist Gerold Huber on Sony Classical.
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New Release Round-Up - 8th March 2019
8th Mar 2019
New albums from Andreas Ottensamer, Stéphanie d'Oustrac and Ian Bostridge, and the world premiere recording of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto for Yo-Yo Ma, with the composer conducting and the dedicatee as soloist.
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Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Bryan Hymel (tenor), Christopher Purves (baritone), Gábor Bretz (bass) London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Guildhall School Singers, Tiffin Children's Chorus, Tiffin Girls' Choir, Tiffin Boys' Choir, Sir Simon Rattle
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Presto Editor's Choices - February 2019
4th Mar 2019
Two contributions to this year’s Offenbach bicentenary by rising young French virtuosos, orchestral works by ‘the father of Scottish music’, and superb advocacy for three female composers from violinist Tasmin Little.
